Alexa is supposedly skewed towards the web savvy (installed Yahoo or alexa toolbar or something). A low Alexa rank doesn’t necessarily indicate less traffic in general but just low traffic from webmasters or web developers.

As we can see, the 3 sites aren’t targeted for the web savvy audience (uhmmnn, maybe overweight bloggers ). We’d be interested to know though how they are faring in PPC income.

BTW, we don’t agree that your site looks ugly. We like stuff to be neat and simple. It’s perfect.

We also love stories like this, showing that it ain’t a breeze to make a mark in the web. Your post inspired one of ours.

Thanks.

However I believe you would agree that as an (arguable) indicator, the alexa stats show that those sites hardly have any substantial traffic.

Thanks for a very inspiring post. Valuable lessons there about commitment. Although, in my humble opinion, PRs of 4-6 ain’t failures. I’d be happy with a 3.

And considering that 5-htp is a single static, isn’t it? A PR 5 for a very plain single static is most impressive. SEObook itself is only a step up.

Hello there Aaron…

So you’re a real guy. I always thought of you as an SEO guru, like a concept, not flesh and blood.

Those 3 sites of yours taught me about not giving up.
It was a shocking discovery for me, but it was and still is a real eye opener.

You inspire me to discover better niche and be more of myself.

I am the one who should thank you Aaron

-iskandar, website owner

My navy rant site was terrible…but it is how I got on the web. If anything that should show just how screwed up I was when I started. I am uncertain why that site would show a PR6 though…it doesn’t have many quality inbound links because it is not a good site.

My weight loss site didn’t work for me because as I tracked what I was doing I felt too fake and too much like a spectacle. I gave that site to my mom. If I were still running it I would give that site a strong strong marketing push because it ranges in the top 30 to 100 results in Google for “weight loss”. She is also #1 for “weight loss blog.”

The 5HTP site has been squandered too because as I collected feedback on antidepressant drugs I realized that many of the things that were bad about the prescription drugs might also hurt people who took 5htp if they did not need it (though it is probably far easier for most to stop using 5htp than the addictive prescription drugs sold as though they are non-addictive).